The Irish standard., 1887-04-16
NEWS in BRIEF.
MINNESOTA.

| 4 street car company is forming at
Hastings.
The Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers
are rising.
Olmstead teachers institute is in ses-
sion at Rochester.
Nels NJ. Moseberg succeeds Ole Sell
Wig as postmaster at Willmar.
The Rochester council is looking up
the matter Of SUNDAY closing.
The Windsor house at Duluth has
been leased by Druggan and Loven-
stein.
Duluth saloonkeepers want permits
sion to pay the 81, 900 license in install
ments.
A vein of hard coal has been discov-
cred two miles south of Sank Centre.
1t is 70 feet below the surface.
Owatonna fire department elected c..
S. Luce chairman, B. E. Darbey secre-
tary, G. J. KinYon treasurer, e. M i.
Twiford chief
In 81 saloon row at Detroit last week
Jack Keefe stabbed Christopher Oh
son three times. Keefe is in Jail and
Olson may recover
A Mr.. Lansing, of Mantorville.
jumped from freight train near Dodge
Center. His face was sewed up in a
neighboring drug store.
All the Catholic societies of St. Cloud
turned out Monday April 4, to meet the
Right Rev. Bishop Sidenbush on his
return home after AZ absence of several
months in California, where he had
been for the benefit Of his health. He
has returned very much improved in
health, matter Of great satisfaction to
the Catholic people. The A. 0. H.,
under command OF Marshal Connelly,
took prominent part in the reception
Oh that evening.
AT LARGE.
The British steamer Carmona,. due
Feb. Is, is given up as lost.
An explosion in a coal shaft at Sa-
vannah, Indian Ter, killed 10 Italians.
The fisheries question is likely to be
settled without use Of the retaliatory
measure
The postofice officials of Cincinnati
have discovered q job to systematically
rob the office.
Mr.. Spencer Smith, of the Council
Bluffs, Ia, Nonpariel. has been APP
pointed railway commissioner.
Robinson Bros, dealers in boots and
shoes, Boston, have assigned. The liza
bilities are about $1,000
Half the block corner Jackson and
Canal streets Chicago, burned last
week; loss S125, coo; insurance S115. OOOO.
A Missouri Pacific ruundhouse was
burned at Omaha recently with loco
motives; loss $35, 00o insurance $780,
900.
Six men were badly burned-two IA
tally-by a molten metal explosion in
the Edgar Thompson Steel works, Bah
cock, Pa.
Capt. T. O. Selfridge, late command
er Of the United States war ship Omaha,
is eli route to Washington under sus-
pension.
Zeid Back, Portland. Ore, Chinese
paid sits for seized property sold as
opium. 1t was oatmeal and Zeid kicks
to the treasury department.
The st. Croix iron range operators
have received a considerable accession
Of confidence from the range of Capt.
Olllls, OF GOgeD1c range.
Capt. Davis, of Mobile, Ala, denies
the report that the Lomax Rifles would
withdraw from the Washington drill on
account of the entry of negro compsn-
les.
The President has appointed Fred j.
Banding, of St: Croix Falls, Wis.,, to be
register of the land office at that place
and Henry Cornelius, of NIenasha, Wis,
to be register there.
LABOR.
The tin and sheet iron workers of
Roston. are uniting for protection.
Sweet & Bond, shoe manufacturers Of
Haverhill, shut down lately.
Cincinnati has an assembly of the
knights of Labor composed entirely of
printers.
There will be national convention
of street railway employees at Philadel-
phia on the 4th of October.